The truly sad thing is many *can* get a job - at universities. I have a lesbian relative that has a PhD in feministsomethingorother and has been regularly employed for decades.
. . . for which I financed $75,000!
It’ll be interesting to see how well they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks!
The real problem is that useful degrees are hard. And far too many college age kids are soft...
An awful lot of kids have no idea what different jobs pay or what the employment prospects are. Many see school as an opportunity to party w/o parental control for a few years. After that idyll ends, however, they have no idea what to do.
But wait. These are the jobs that teaching professionals say are for losers.
I wonder what a journeyman machinist or tool & die maker makes these days.
Here’s how to do it kids:
1. Get a degree, major doesn’t matter (Cost = $100,000)
2. Get technical certifications (Cost ~ $5,000 - $30,000)
I will check to see if you have a degree, and then hire you based on your technical qualifications. You can skip step 1 by getting a low end technical job and banking 2-3 years experience. Now do you understand what has real value in today’s marketplace?
Every year I see tons of people walking down to the local Art school and I have to laugh.
They are spending thousands for those art supplies, tens of thousands for the classes, and graduating with tens of thousands of other art students into careers that don’t exist, with tens of thousands in debt.
There’s always the Doctorate in Social Justice available at the University of Massachusetts School of Professional Grievances.
The Government student loan program is over 1 trillion dollars and 50% of those loans are in default...
ummmm yeah that program is a great idea... Like all government programs.
Bring back American industry.
Make things here.
Make lots of things here.
Right here.
Stop importing everything. Make stuff in America.
In a free market one succeeds by providing value that others will purchase.
If a degree does not help you provide purchasable value, it’s not worth purchasing (unless you can afford to spend your money to study something for fun).
Shame on the academic community for misleading so many naïve students.
The feminist stuff is crap but medieval history? That’s hardly a soft subject to me! You can have a really good career as a historian (hopefully objective and politically incorrect) or as a writer. I have a thousand books on medieval English history - enough to keep a world of writers employed.
Most ______________ Studies degrees train students for one thing: to be a teacher of ____________ Studies. Except those jobs are already taken by professors who know that they have nothing else to offer the job market and thus cannot leave their cushy positions.
You forgot to add on Tibetan Yak chants. It’s a whole new study needed.
How narrow-minded of you -- Are you both racist and homophobic?
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-PJ